Rotheca incisa (Klotzsch) Steane & Mabb. (= Clerodendrum macrosiphon Hook f.)

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 100

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.102.24380

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scientific name

Rotheca incisa (Klotzsch) Steane & Mabb. (= Clerodendrum macrosiphon Hook f.)
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Rotheca incisa (Klotzsch) Steane & Mabb. (= Clerodendrum macrosiphon Hook f.)

Names.

Myanmar: ngayan-padu. English: tubeflower.

Range.

Tropical Africa. Cultivated in Myanmar.

Uses.

Leaf: Used in treating venereal diseases.

Notes.

In Africa, leaf-sap and a root-decoction are drunk as an anti-malarial ( Burkill 1985).

Reference.

Nordal (1963).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Lamiaceae

Genus

Rotheca